. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)
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Franz Werfel
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
The Song of Bernadette
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Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.
Which road, which road did you takeThat brought you here at last?No road, no road did I take.I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.
The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.
We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.
Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.